All of us also know that we teach our students essential life skills. However, our students do not always consider how very important those life skills are. They instead become focused only on grades in law school. They do not contemplate how life skills that apply to success in law school also apply to being better attorneys, friends, spouses, parents, and citizens.

Here are some of the life skills that I think we teach our law students to help them in everything they will do. The list is not in a particular order, and I am sure all of us could add to it.

Time management

Project management

Stress management

Preferences for learning

Effective memory strategies

Curbing procrastination tendencies

Life-work balance

Clarification of personal and professional goals

Problem solving - academic and non-academic

Evaluating strategies, options, and techniques

Facing difficulties (and even failure) and moving forward

Celebrating improvement and overcoming obstacles.

The balance between relying on oneself and asking for help.

I want my students to succeed academically. But I especially want them to succeed as valuable human beings. (Amy Jarmon)